"Does GNOME co-founder Miguel de Icaza's backflip over the Novell-Microsoft deal a few days ago mean that he has finally been convinced that he is on a one-way path to nowhere? Has he realised that his own project, Mono, is actually putting GNOME on a development track that can leave it open to patent claims one day? And has he realised that creating Moonlight, a clone of Microsoft's Silverlight, (with which the company hopes to trump Adobe's Flash) is not going to advance the cause of free software one iota?"

Do you remember how the RAMBUS fiasco ended? I'm sure microsoft does. They got told that they could not encourage their intellectual property to be used by everyone, and then turn around and sue the industry.

Should I -really- point out that RAMBUS was (at it's peak) around 1/100 the size of Microsoft?
... Should I -really- add that unlike RAMBUS (that sued far bigger targets then itself) - Microsoft is 50 times bigger then its intendant targets?